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OSPREY’S NEW BIKE PACK | MURKY ExCURSION RECAP | CALENDAR OF SUMMER AND FALL RACES AUGUST 2012 VOLUME XXI NO. 9 VERMONT CVTSPORTS.COM SPORT S HIKE THE WHITES! 4 Hikes in New Hampshire Divas and Bellas GirLS MEET MTB 5K RACING TOWARD ACCESSIBILITY MAKE THE MOST OF Summer FREE (REALLY!) NEW EnGLAND’S OUTDOOR MAGAZINE Sports Concussion 101: Keeping Our Athletes Safe Includes educational workshop and baseline testing For athletes of all ages, parents of athletes, coaches, school nurses, and athletic trainers. Education Workshop: Sports medicine experts discuss when to pull a player out of game, when to see a doctor, concussion symptoms, neurocognitive testing, and more. Baseline Testing: During the workshop, athletes aged 11-65 can complete a balance test and a baseline test using the industry standard ImPACT® testing software. Baseline testing is crucial in the event of a future concussion. Two workshop dates available – choose a one-hour session: Saturday, August 11 Sessions: 8 AM, 9 AM, 10 AM Tuesday, August 14 Sessions: 5 PM, 6 PM, 7 PM All sessions held in Auditorium A-B at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH. Workshops are free; baseline testing is $15 per person. Space is limited. Registration deadline is one day prior to each workshop. To register, call (603) 650-8867 or email [email protected]. SPORTS MEDICINE Find out more at dhsports.org. VERMONT SPORTNEW EnGLAND’S OUTDOOR MAGAZINES PUBLISHER & EDITOR Sky Barsch Gleiner C [email protected] ArT DirECTION & PrODUCTION Shawn Braley C [email protected] ADVERTISinG SALES Greg Meulemans C [email protected] | (802) 366-0689 READER ATHLETE EDITOR Phyl Newbeck C [email protected] GEAR AND BEER EDITOR Josh Gleiner C [email protected] CALENDAR EDITOR Aimee Alexander THIS MONTH’S CONTribUTinG WriTERS Sophia Barsalow, Lisa Densmore, John Morton, Phyl Newbeck A hiker relaxes on Franconia Ridge. 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POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to HIKE THE WHITES! Osprey pack, Keen shoes, Vermont Sports Publishing LLC, 19 High St., Trout River Rainbow Red FOUR CLASSIC HIKES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE Orleans, VT 05860 21 rEADER ATHLETE Kelly Ault 22 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Vermont Sports is a proud member of 24 VERMONT SPORTS BIKES, SKIS, AND MORE 16-19 DirECTOry 26 OUT & ABOUT and ZOE'S RACE Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility. A 5K THat MAKES HOMES ACCESSIBLE FOR Four Old Ski-Shooters Return to Alaska CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES ON THE COVER Carolyn Casner paddles past a herd of curious FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER FOR cows on Lewis ADVERTISERS! Creek in CONTESTS, PRIZES, GIVEAWAYS, AND MORE! Ferrisburgh, VT. The space deadline for the September/ Photo by Jeb C FACEBOOK.COM/VERMONTSPORTSMAGAZINE October issue of Vermont Sports is August Wallace-Brodeur 10. Contact Greg Meulemans (greg@vtsports. C TWITTER.COM/VERMONT_SPORTS com) today to reserve space! AUGUST 2012 VTSPORTS.COM 3 from vermont sports MAKE THE MOST OF SUMMER CHALLENGE 2012 Finally. • Hike the Whites. Stand tall on the After 2011 spring flooding, Tropi- summit of any of New Hampshire’s cal Storm Irene, and The Winter that peaks mentioned in Lisa Densmore’s ar- Wasn’t, we certainly deserved to have a ticle (pages 12–15). Podiatric sports medicine season that was … enjoyable. Our out- • Practice yoga outside. Take advantage door economy needed it, our tourism at the of Sophia Barsalow’s talented instruc- Sharon Health Center sector needed it, and our psyches needed tion on page 6. it (mine did, anyway). • Ride singletrack. Be inspired by the girls So here we are, in August, the who participate in Little Bellas and Dirt The Sharon Health Center sweetest and, in my opinion, saddest Divas (page 8), and hit up any one of the month, because as the red leaves start to is home to expert sports trails that have made Vermont known as appear on the trees and the nights seem medicine providers, including the mountain biking of the East. that much cooler and the mist seems a • Get on the water. Swim, kayak, canoe, highly-skilled podiatric bit heavier in the morning, you start to SUP, or sail (page 10) before it’s all ice. surgeons Dr. Rob Rinaldi realize summer’s days are numbered. • Run a 5K. August is chock full of 5Ks, So my challenge to you is to make and Dr. Paul Smith. from Zoe’s Race (page 16) and many the most of what’s left of the dry hiking Dr. Rob Rinaldi Dr. Paul Smith more (page 24). trails and easy breezy road biking under Ready? Clock’s ticking. Entries must be Experienced in both surgical and non-surgical treatments of foot, ankle the hot sun. sent to us by Sept. 5. We’ll publish the This is our Make the Most of Sum- and lower leg injuries and ailments, the duo has worked together for best photos on our blog mer Challenge. Complete the five tasks three years and is available to care for your podiatry needs. at vtsports.com. below, and send a photograph of each task (must be done in August 2012) to See you out there, [email protected]. A randomly se- Call today for an appointment. Sky lected person who completes each task Sharon Health Center 763-8000 www.giffordmed.org and has proof will receive a gear pack valued at more than $100. Join us for the Best Dam Walk/Run in Vermont Sunday, September 9, 2012 Starting at the Harriman Dam in Whitingham, the easy, flat 7-mile scenic trail follows an old railroad bed along the lake. Walkers can do a half marathon round trip or a shorter distance. Ask your friends to sponsor you. All proceeds benefit the Deerfield Valley Community Cares Fuel Assistance Fund and will help to keep our neighbors warm this winter. For details and entry forms go to www.bestdamwalk.com or call 802-464-5872. 4 VTSPORTS.COM AUGUST 2012 forests, enjoying the dark, quiet hours When everyone is tired, I still want to race recap with only your teammates and the for- go up. est plants, animals, and if you’re lucky, MURKY EXCURSION the stars above. I love feeling the weight VS: If you were in charge of the race, JUNE 8–9, 2012 HARDWICK of my pack on my shoulders, feeling would you do anything differently? | confident and prepared, but asking my KV: There are other races for which i’d teammate to help me remember to eat suggest changing the layout but not for and drink in order to stay energized and this one. It was really well done. I just THe Murky excursion is an mentally competent. I love the challenge wish we could get more people doing it, eight-hour overnight adventure race for of the 2-D map, and having to bring it but I think a lot of people don’t want teams of two or three, which is run un- alive by studying the contour lines, the to race at night. GMARA does a really der the auspices of the Green Mountain streams, the swamps, and the distanc- good job of being inclusive and making Adventure Racing Association. The race es. I absolutely love Vermont, and the the race easier for first-timers. If you requires navigation skills and includes GMARA affords me the opportunities get to a checkpoint, and you’re lagging trekking, mountain biking, “plus a few to explore and experience it in ways and behind, they might suggest that you surprises along the way.” Kit Vreeland, a during hours that very few people get to. skip one and point you toward another. 29-year-old from Winooski who works I love the gear, the people I race with, the This is really a personal competition as a clinical assistant professor at the directors and volunteers, the problem- more than a traditional one competing University of Vermont had an adjusted we would start on foot for the first hour solving, the muddy shoes, the moment against others. time of 7:49 for her team, Night Riders. or so and then switch to our mountain when you decide to step into the flowing She and her teammate, Liz Brownlee, bikes and then back to trekking. Murky stream and let go of the inhibitions, en- —Phyl Newbeck were the only two-person women’s team. Excursion is an apt name because we joying the sunrise from a mountain bike, were in a swamp for a few hours. Every the post-race food and that first beer. ... I VS: Was this your first time doing the 10 minutes or so I had to pull my boot could go on for hours. Murky Excursion? out of the mud to make sure I didn’t lose KV: it was my first time for the race and VS: What did you like best about the Phyl Newbeck lives in it.